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The nominees for the 2019 UK Theatre Awards have been announced, among which include Death of a Salesman, Life of Pi, The Watsons. The award results will be announced next month on …
On a recent trip to New York, I saw Beetlejuice The Musical on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre and it beyond lived up to the hype I'd been hearing from this side of the pond. The cr…
The first production shots have been released for the limited Trafalgar Studios run of A Day in the Death of Joe Egg. Previews for the production started exactly two weeks after the…
It has just been announced that A Taste of Honey, the debut play by Shelagh Delaney written when she was just 19 years old, is set to transfer to London's Trafalgar Studios this December for…
Following the sell-out, critically acclaimed run at the Almeida Theatre, this production from multi-award-winning director Robert Icke has been announced to transfer to the West End…
The Royal Court Theatre and Wales National Theatre co-production of On Bear Ridge, which is set to open at the Royal Court on 24 October as part of the venue's politically charged 2019…
Casting has just been announced for the highly-anticipated West End transfer of Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dyson's spooky London theatre show, Ghost Stories. The pant-wetting production ope…
The smash-hit Off-West End revival of Noël Coward's Blithe Spirit is set to transfer from its highly successful run at the Theatre Royal Bath to the Duke of York's Theatre in London…
The diner will continue to serve pie in the West End as the show announces its fourth extension! Over on Broadway, the pie-tacular comedy has been running at the Brook Atkinson Theater since…
New production shots for BIG The Musical have been released and they're absolutely to die for! If you've been wishing upon a Zoltar machine for some gorgeous new big photos, then today is yo…
The revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's smash hit musical once again proved itself a phenomenal success when it opened for a 10-week run at the iconic London Palladium in summer…
Matilda the Musical, with music and lyrics by the talented Tim Minchin is always going to be a good time. I was most interested to see how children would be able to get lost in the story, to…
After making its Broadway debut 23 years ago and its UK premiere in both Plymouth and Dublin two years ago, BIG The Musical (based on the film by Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg), make…
The West End is finally getting the diversity it deserves with the arrival of the inaugural Black British Theatre Awards, which will recognise black talent in the performing arts all acro…
The West End is where wishes come true! Jay McGuiness, Kerry Ellis, David Shire, Amy Hart, and more made an appearance at BIG The Musical's Gala Night in aid of the Make-A-Wish Foundat…
With the highly-anticipated premiere of Magic Goes Wrong now less than three months away, Mischief Theatre have given a small teaser of what's to come with the release of some first-look …
It was love at first sight when I encountered Fame as a TV series in the early 1980s; always rushing home from school to watch each episode. So imagine how excited I was to see Fame the Musi…
Full casting has been announced for the upcoming West End transfer of White Christmas. The hit musical will make its way to London's Dominion Theatre on 16 November following a highly …
The talented French 'jack of all trades' with a huge conk Cyrano de Bergerac is coming to London's Playhouse Theatre this November in one of the most highly-anticipated productions of the ye…
It has just been announced that after more than a year of understudying the role of Margaret New in Everybody's Talking About Jamie, Melissa Jacques is set to take over the role full time be…
The upcoming Off-West End theatre production of Mother of Him has found its cast. The stage play will run at London's Park Theatre for a strictly limited season from 18 September until 26…
The Menier Chocolate Factory announced a major revival of The Boy Friend last month. The Sandy Wilson musical, which is to be directed by Matthew White, will open just in time for Christmas�…
After a month of anticipation with the shortlist announcement, the 2019 Stage Debut Award winners were finally unveiled on Sunday, 15 September in a ceremony held at The Brewery in London…
The winners for the 2019 Knight of Illumination Awards in the theatre categories have been announced. The awards were held at the Eventim Apollo in London on 15 September in a ceremony th…
The grand reopening of Les Miserables, which premieres on 18 December 2019 with a brand-new production at the Sondheim Theatre (formerly known as the Queen's Theatre and recently renamed), i…
